“We are all blockheads.”

“We need but little learning to live happily.”

“We need to interpret interpretations more than to interpret things.”

“All is a-swarm with commentaries; of authors there is a dearth.”

“The beautiful souls are they that are unniversal, open, and ready for all things.”

“It is a dangerous and fateful presumption, besides the absurd temerity that it implies, to disdain what we do not comprehend. For after you have established, according to your fine undertstanding, the limits of truth and falsehood, and it turns out that you must necessarily believe things even stranger than those you deny, you are obliged from then on to abandon these limits.”

“It is a small soul, buried beneath the weight of affairs, that does not know how to get clean away from them, that cannot put them aside and pick them up again.”